All of the wind and weather on planet Earth is a result of temperature inversions caused by solar heating. It seems to me that energy from wind should be less efficient than energy from solar due to thermodynamics. Why then is solar more expensive?
One thing to consider is total cost of ownership, and over the lifetime of an LED, you would have bought somewhere between 30 and 100 incandescent bulbs.
I haven't seen where LEDs last any longer than regular bulbs. If you look at total time before every single diode stops firing then it probably will last longer than incandescent, but when you start to look at the lowering of light output due to failed diodes, it starts going down pretty quickly. You don't notice it as much in most bulbs, other than they get dimmer, but if you look at traffic lights, for example, you can see that pretty quickly after they are installed, individuals diodes start to fail.
Cali wants to be a dictatorial state, let 'em. The whole state will dry up and blow away soon and this benighted attempt to control a non-sovereign borderless non-currency becomes a moot point.
Unfortunately the people who leave California due to it being so screwed up keep moving to other states and then pressing for similar laws in that state.
To be honest, the people who were first in charge were probably trustworthy but had no authority to grant shares. Then after about 3 years, they started getting weeded out and replaced with people who had no intentions of ever following through but continued to say they would. After three years, they were so far in my debt that I had to let it ride in hopes that it would payoff. I guess it was kind of like gambling. I figure altogether they owe me about $1 million in overtime, COLA, raises and vacation days.
I wouldn't doubt that Zuckerberg did promise him some share in the company. This is a standard business practice. Executives will promise shares of the company to the developers, who then toil day and night in hopes of a payoff. The executives are very careful never to put this in writing, and every time you ask about it, they never can seem to get around to putting it in writing, but their word is golden. Then, when the company finally starts to make money, they conveniently forget about all of their promises. In fact, I recently got terminated from one such place because they finally started to make money and could no longer dance around the fact that they hadn't given me the shares in the company that they had been promising for the previous 9 years.
Bail is generally fronted by a bondsman, since most people don't have large amounts of money just sitting around to give to the court. Bail is supposed to be a fee that you pay while you are awaiting trial. Of course, since you are innocent until proven guilty, bail is unconstitutional, but that is another topic. Anyway, you usually pay the bondsman a percentage of the bail, like 10%. If they consider you a flight risk, then they (not the court) will put a tracking device on you. You may even be able to opt to do so yourself in exchange for a smaller percentage.
I was with a Turkish friend and he forced me to LIE about my sexual orientation to meet his friends and their families.
Yes, that is rude. He should have allowed you to just not even bring it up at all, which would have been more appropriate in Turkey or any other country.
Yes, exactly. So why don't the employers understand that? I mean, I have had my hands on 20 different technologies over the last 25 years of my career. The fact that I don't know their special inhouse purpose built software package should not be held against me because it is "just a tool", right?
I was there in I think '98 or '99. It seems to my faded memory that they would not allow photography of the Mona Lisa at all back then, but maybe I am just misremembering.
No my SYSTEM came with a mouse. I'm sure my IPS monitor cost a multiple of what the convertibles cost. But then my system provides me many times more functionality than a convertible would.
Go into the Cricket store and the workers will be on a small tablet trying to punch in and change your account information. No shit - last time I went in there, they still had their full desktops, but they were only used for ringing up purchases. Other stuff was done on the tablet. The tablet this particular employee was using had issues connecting to the network, so it took forever, and I had time to ask her, "You can't just do it on the computer?" No, they are actually mandating employees to use tablets now.
Same at the AT&T store. They were busy trying to use some clunky interface on a tablet to order my friend a new SIM card. After awhile they gave up and went and did it on the desktop.
They FAIL at trying to pretend that tablets are actually a useful tool in an office environment.
Go into your average business full of clerks and office workers. How many of them need powerful desktops and large/multiple screens?
Anybody running modern Windows OS and Office needs multiple screens. Back in the day, you could work just fine on a single 17" monitor running 1200X1600 resolution, but now most Windows programs make horrible use of screen real estate such that it is necessary to have multiple monitors to be able to place a couple of open applications on so that you can do your job,
I shouldn't even have to mention the fact that the ultrabook convertible is far more portable and has an IPS panel touchscreen, which I doubt your system has.
My system has a 30" IPS panel, and it is even better than a touchscreen, it comes with a mouse, which is much more controllable and efficient.
On that much we can agree. If we can just keep them in office for such a short time that they can't get a handle on how things get done, then it works out best for the average Joe. It is when they actually get something done that we start to feel the pain.
Cars barely interact with the GPS. They basically feed it info, but don't get anything back. If they did get the position back, then resetting the clock would depend upon large geographical databases and information about which areas do DST and which don't. Since this changes from time to time and the car's software does not, this would get to be a hassle. I would much rather my car concentrate on being driven, and not try to worry about what time it is. The GPS, on the other hand, could probably easily display the correct time, except that it also is not easily updated for changes in DST zoning.
Cell phones are unreliable as means of getting the time as they set their clock based on the network time (unless that function is turned off). The phone could conceivably still be connected to a tower in another state when you cross the border and so it could be miles before the phone's time updates. I've seen it happen. Many cell phones now have GPS, but I don't believe that they have the option to set time from the GPS location. Once again though, the GPS signal is in UTC, so getting the local time would depend upon a large geographical database, or a data plan to interface with some nice online database where you send it your GPS coordinates and it sends you back the time.
I would much prefer my phone to concentrate on making phone calls and not worry about what time it is in this square meter.
The benefit goes to the 98% of the population who aren't at risk of this alleged farm shopping problem
You did not answer the question. The question was "Exactly what is the benefit of monkeying with everyone else's time?".
You answered where the benefit goes, not what the benefit is. As far as I can see, there is no benefit.
http://www.timeanddate.com/tim...
"Losing U.S. popularity - According to a Rasmussen Report from 2013, only 37 % of Americans see the purpose of DST compared to 45 % the year before."
Only 37% see the purpose. That to me doesn't clearly show how many people dislike it. You can still see the purpose and not be in favor of it. I expect that if they had phrased the question correctly, they would have more people against it, as seen in other polls.
You're a few years too late for that. You shoulda asked him back when he was a senator, and could actually, you know, pass laws.
He wasn't interested in passing laws back then. He hardly ever showed up to vote. He had no interested in performing the duty he was elected to do and spent all of his time trying to become president.
One problem with that is that the Earth wobbles on it's axis, so figuring out how when a rotation started and stopped is different every day and depends where you put the marker and your plane of reference. Another problem with that is that the Earth's rotation is slowing down, so as time goes on, centons will get longer relative to a fixed time source.
On the other hand, on Earth, by the time you have fallen for two seconds, you are traveling almost 20 meters per second, and you are probably going to die on impact. On Ceres, you can fall for over 70 seconds and over 700 feet and not reach the same velocity.
Well, then why are they asking for help identifying whose device this is? it obviously belongs to the government, and the government is illegally tracking people and needs to be replaced with a new one.
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The same people that constantly harp on being green and saving the environment are all upset that they can't waste energy on inductive charging.
Ah yes, back in those days, registering a domain was free and you could find domains that actually related to your business.
All of the wind and weather on planet Earth is a result of temperature inversions caused by solar heating. It seems to me that energy from wind should be less efficient than energy from solar due to thermodynamics. Why then is solar more expensive?
One thing to consider is total cost of ownership, and over the lifetime of an LED, you would have bought somewhere between 30 and 100 incandescent bulbs.
I haven't seen where LEDs last any longer than regular bulbs. If you look at total time before every single diode stops firing then it probably will last longer than incandescent, but when you start to look at the lowering of light output due to failed diodes, it starts going down pretty quickly. You don't notice it as much in most bulbs, other than they get dimmer, but if you look at traffic lights, for example, you can see that pretty quickly after they are installed, individuals diodes start to fail.
Cali wants to be a dictatorial state, let 'em. The whole state will dry up and blow away soon and this benighted attempt to control a non-sovereign borderless non-currency becomes a moot point.
Unfortunately the people who leave California due to it being so screwed up keep moving to other states and then pressing for similar laws in that state.
To be honest, the people who were first in charge were probably trustworthy but had no authority to grant shares. Then after about 3 years, they started getting weeded out and replaced with people who had no intentions of ever following through but continued to say they would. After three years, they were so far in my debt that I had to let it ride in hopes that it would payoff. I guess it was kind of like gambling. I figure altogether they owe me about $1 million in overtime, COLA, raises and vacation days.
I wouldn't doubt that Zuckerberg did promise him some share in the company. This is a standard business practice. Executives will promise shares of the company to the developers, who then toil day and night in hopes of a payoff. The executives are very careful never to put this in writing, and every time you ask about it, they never can seem to get around to putting it in writing, but their word is golden. Then, when the company finally starts to make money, they conveniently forget about all of their promises. In fact, I recently got terminated from one such place because they finally started to make money and could no longer dance around the fact that they hadn't given me the shares in the company that they had been promising for the previous 9 years.
Bail is generally fronted by a bondsman, since most people don't have large amounts of money just sitting around to give to the court. Bail is supposed to be a fee that you pay while you are awaiting trial. Of course, since you are innocent until proven guilty, bail is unconstitutional, but that is another topic. Anyway, you usually pay the bondsman a percentage of the bail, like 10%. If they consider you a flight risk, then they (not the court) will put a tracking device on you. You may even be able to opt to do so yourself in exchange for a smaller percentage.
I was with a Turkish friend and he forced me to LIE about my sexual orientation to meet his friends and their families.
Yes, that is rude. He should have allowed you to just not even bring it up at all, which would have been more appropriate in Turkey or any other country.
Yes, exactly. So why don't the employers understand that? I mean, I have had my hands on 20 different technologies over the last 25 years of my career. The fact that I don't know their special inhouse purpose built software package should not be held against me because it is "just a tool", right?
I was there in I think '98 or '99. It seems to my faded memory that they would not allow photography of the Mona Lisa at all back then, but maybe I am just misremembering.
No my SYSTEM came with a mouse. I'm sure my IPS monitor cost a multiple of what the convertibles cost. But then my system provides me many times more functionality than a convertible would.
Go into the Cricket store and the workers will be on a small tablet trying to punch in and change your account information. No shit - last time I went in there, they still had their full desktops, but they were only used for ringing up purchases. Other stuff was done on the tablet. The tablet this particular employee was using had issues connecting to the network, so it took forever, and I had time to ask her, "You can't just do it on the computer?" No, they are actually mandating employees to use tablets now.
Same at the AT&T store. They were busy trying to use some clunky interface on a tablet to order my friend a new SIM card. After awhile they gave up and went and did it on the desktop.
They FAIL at trying to pretend that tablets are actually a useful tool in an office environment.
Go into your average business full of clerks and office workers. How many of them need powerful desktops and large/multiple screens?
Anybody running modern Windows OS and Office needs multiple screens. Back in the day, you could work just fine on a single 17" monitor running 1200X1600 resolution, but now most Windows programs make horrible use of screen real estate such that it is necessary to have multiple monitors to be able to place a couple of open applications on so that you can do your job,
I shouldn't even have to mention the fact that the ultrabook convertible is far more portable and has an IPS panel touchscreen, which I doubt your system has.
My system has a 30" IPS panel, and it is even better than a touchscreen, it comes with a mouse, which is much more controllable and efficient.
On that much we can agree. If we can just keep them in office for such a short time that they can't get a handle on how things get done, then it works out best for the average Joe. It is when they actually get something done that we start to feel the pain.
Cars barely interact with the GPS. They basically feed it info, but don't get anything back. If they did get the position back, then resetting the clock would depend upon large geographical databases and information about which areas do DST and which don't. Since this changes from time to time and the car's software does not, this would get to be a hassle. I would much rather my car concentrate on being driven, and not try to worry about what time it is. The GPS, on the other hand, could probably easily display the correct time, except that it also is not easily updated for changes in DST zoning.
Cell phones are unreliable as means of getting the time as they set their clock based on the network time (unless that function is turned off). The phone could conceivably still be connected to a tower in another state when you cross the border and so it could be miles before the phone's time updates. I've seen it happen. Many cell phones now have GPS, but I don't believe that they have the option to set time from the GPS location. Once again though, the GPS signal is in UTC, so getting the local time would depend upon a large geographical database, or a data plan to interface with some nice online database where you send it your GPS coordinates and it sends you back the time.
I would much prefer my phone to concentrate on making phone calls and not worry about what time it is in this square meter.
The benefit goes to the 98% of the population who aren't at risk of this alleged farm shopping problem
You did not answer the question. The question was "Exactly what is the benefit of monkeying with everyone else's time?".
You answered where the benefit goes, not what the benefit is. As far as I can see, there is no benefit.
http://www.timeanddate.com/tim... "Losing U.S. popularity - According to a Rasmussen Report from 2013, only 37 % of Americans see the purpose of DST compared to 45 % the year before."
Only 37% see the purpose. That to me doesn't clearly show how many people dislike it. You can still see the purpose and not be in favor of it. I expect that if they had phrased the question correctly, they would have more people against it, as seen in other polls.
You're a few years too late for that. You shoulda asked him back when he was a senator, and could actually, you know, pass laws.
He wasn't interested in passing laws back then. He hardly ever showed up to vote. He had no interested in performing the duty he was elected to do and spent all of his time trying to become president.
How about this one? 77% in favor of abolishing it. I believe that constitutes a majority.
One problem with that is that the Earth wobbles on it's axis, so figuring out how when a rotation started and stopped is different every day and depends where you put the marker and your plane of reference. Another problem with that is that the Earth's rotation is slowing down, so as time goes on, centons will get longer relative to a fixed time source.
On the other hand, on Earth, by the time you have fallen for two seconds, you are traveling almost 20 meters per second, and you are probably going to die on impact. On Ceres, you can fall for over 70 seconds and over 700 feet and not reach the same velocity.
Well, then why are they asking for help identifying whose device this is? it obviously belongs to the government, and the government is illegally tracking people and needs to be replaced with a new one.
... if it costs one penny (or some other pricing scheme) to send each email.
The fee would be tacked on the ISP's bill, much like a tax, and would go to the government toward litigation costs for prosecuting spammers.
That simple change would kill spam.
I have to think of everything.
And legitimate double opt-in newsletters.